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To: inquest
On the other hand, his theory might help to explain why major chords produce one emotional response in every culture, whereas minor chords produce a very different response.

Some things pass for music and art these days that have no business in that category. And I think we can all think of examples. Much of the music and art of today is warped and degenerate - it is the ugly fruit of humanistic atheism. Can anyone think of anything beautiful that came out of the USSR? I can't. Atheism is just plain Ugly with a capital U.

1,269 posted on 07/30/2003 9:26:15 AM PDT by exmarine
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To: exmarine
Can anyone think of anything beautiful that came out of the USSR?

Much of the music of Shostakovich and Prokofiev is very beautiful. You are almost certainly familiar with Prokofiev's 'Troika' from the Lieutenant Kije Suite; it's been co-opted, usually without attribution, as a standard piece of Christmas music; yet it was written as the soundtrack for a Bolshevik propaganda film.

1,280 posted on 07/30/2003 9:54:47 AM PDT by Right Wing Professor
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Eisenstein was certainly one of the greats. Alexander Nevsky. Potempkin.

Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita, and other dissident art also qualifies as great.

As for atheists, Ayn Rand was a atheist, and a great writer and philosopher.

1,299 posted on 07/30/2003 10:24:22 AM PDT by CobaltBlue (Never voted for a Democrat in my life.)
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Can anyone think of anything beautiful that came out of the USSR?

Well, in the early days there were the films of Eisenstein and Dovzhenko, but once Stalin came along there wasn't much.

1,320 posted on 07/30/2003 10:47:37 AM PDT by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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Can anyone think of anything beautiful that came out of the USSR?

Eisenstein's movies, Vinogradov's math, Illych-Schvitich's linguistics

1,516 posted on 07/30/2003 7:25:53 PM PDT by Virginia-American
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